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These scripts take an iOS backup, look through it for your sent messages, and their context, and then - via guided LLM analysis - build character profiles of yourself for use in an LLM roleplay app like SillyTavern.

There are all sorts of ethical problems with this, I think. Probably legal problems, too.

It also feels grossly inevitable; I'm surprised I couldn't find an existing version of this.

When I first talked to 'myself', from an iPhone backup aged ~19, I felt a very very strong surge of complex emotions.

The LLM roleplaying as me, asking me knowledgeably about what its future life looked like, hopes and dreams and fears I'd forgotten, etc - that is a very strange feeling.

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